Yuck.

Thanks guys!

Well, Im done with my first cycle of Chemotherapy.

No problems or side effects.

Although I am eligible for long term disability, I'm at work.

Can you imagine that? A federal civil servant that doesn't bail out with the first chance to NOT work?

I like my job, and I'm able to do it.

On the home front, I can have a drink rarely. It's killing me not to have a few drinks with the wifey. Also can't go into the hot tub...

Still here

Hey guys!

Been back to work part time since April, and full time since July, not bad considering I finished chemotherapy in early March. But it did beat the crap out of me. At the end I was sleeping about 22 hours a day. Not once did I get sick enough to lose my lunch though. Close, but it didn't happen.

All my hair grew back pretty good. It was weird having no hair at all - even the eyelashes were gone. The worst affected was my feet. All the skin came off the bottom of my feet and it was hell just walking. Lost all my toenails too, but 6 of them have come back so far. I have some nerve damage to my fingertips. Apart from tiring easily, I'm OK.


The finally tally:

3 surgeries
12 bi-weekly infusions of Chemo (ABVD)
1 bone marrow tap
74 injections [1 a day for 6 days after each chemo session] in the stomach of Neupogen (to increase my white cell count)
2 PET scans in Montreal
4 MRIs
4 CT scans
3 emergency room visits
34 blood tests

Family and friends were just awesome through the whole ordeal.

I did a bunch of tests in December, and the results came back in January. Oncologist said that the results were so clean, it looked like I never even had cancer - no scarring, calcification - nothing at all. It looks so good that I no longer have to do any scans, just a blood test every 6 months.